Porsche suffers recall fever for its Panameras

The high profile carmaker Porsche suffered a setback when it has to recall its Panameras [images]. The car set to roll down months ago and follows suit on the lines of Toyota. Actually Porsche relied much on this Panamera, expected to be the bread winner in terms of net sales. It was supposed to be …

Maruti to invest Rs6000 crore for additional production

In order to meet the demand for its range of cars, three of them have a long wait of six months, Maruti Suzuki has to shell out Rs6000 crore for expanding its plants. By this the company is likely to increase the production, said its executive officer. Swift, for which the wait period is longer …

M&M is on the verge of new overseas project

The failure in acquiring Land Rover has not spared M&M to leave any void and the time has now come for exploring new ventures. One such attempt is to negotiate with Korea’s Ssangyong Motor Co, which is on the sailing nail. However, the information is negated by both the companies as the M&M’s President for …

Test drive from Nissan for its export cars

The test drive has at last commenced by Nissan for its export models to Europe and six cars have already been dispatched to Barcelona from its Chennai plant. This firs consignment will reach the destination in a time span of 22 days, said the company’s MD and CEO. The full fledged export would commence from …

Yamaha introduces new colours for FZ-16 and FZ-S

The fate of Indian motorcycle industry is ridiculous! While customers complain of boring sticker jobs and 3D logos, Yamaha has joined the bandwagon. Yamaha has introduced two new colours for FZ-16 and FZ-S and calling it as a makeover. FZ-S will be available in Black Cyber Green, Silver Tech and Sport Electric Blue colors while …

Ad propagation under scrutiny

The automobile industries in India are in the lurch to undergo the scrutiny by the governing body of the advertising industry, Advertising Standards Council of India. The body has since received complaints regarding the ads displayed for Maruti SX4 [images] and M&M’s scooter Flyte [images]. The body has instructed the companies to alter the ads …

Volkswagen to produce cars based on Maruti Wagon-R and Ritz

Following the 20% stake acquisition in Suzuki (the parent group of Maruti Suzuki) by Volkswagen, the two giants have started looking at synergies. As expected, India is the prime market for this european – japanese tie-up and things have started unfolding. NDTV reports that Maruti may produce cars based on Ritz and new Wagon-R (2010) …

Maruti to increase its production

Maruti Suzuki, which enjoys 50% of the Indian car market, is setting a new level to increase its production- 70000 units in 2010- to feed the demand. The utilization of employees in full swing and wiping out wasteful operations is the need of the hour, said its Executive Officer. The Manesar facility will be expanded …

After Nano, it would be 800cc small car from Tata

The intermodel between Nano [images] and Indica [images] is to be offered by Tata in the form of a small car with 800cc. code named as Dolphin, it is expected to roll down in 2012 to be powered by an 800cc or 1000cc engine to set in the A2 segment(WagonR [images] and Hyundai i10 [images]). …

Maruti faces export decline to Europe

The present is not as potential as past for Maruti in the case of export sales to Europe. The earlier sale was due to the incentive offered on scrappage scheme for dispensing with old cars for new ones. Now the scheme is since withdrawn there is no point in lamenting the consistent sale. The decline …